Professional Bio

I teach in the Department of Political Science at Penn State and currently serve as the co-Director of the Global and International Studies (GLIS) program. I previously held the Jeffrey L. and Sharon D. Hyde Early Career Professorship. I completed my Ph.D. at UCLA in 2007. Prior to arriving at Penn State, I was a post-doctoral research associate at Princeton University and a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Notre Dame.  In 2016 I was on leave in Cape Town as a visiting scholar at Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA)